AUSTRALIAN HONEY-ANTS. 



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terior and posterior surfaces forming nearly a right angle with each 

 other in profile. 



Color brownish black; mandibles, funiculi and tips of tibiae fusco- 

 testaceous; tarsi pale yellow. 



Figure 8. Leptomyrmex niger Emery. Head of worker after Emery. 



German New Guinea: (L. Biro), Huongolf (Neuhaus). 



As I have not seen this species I have translated and rearranged 

 Emery's original description and reproduced his figure. The shape of 

 the head is very characteristic and easily separates the species from 

 unicolor which it closely resembles in color. 



11. Leptomyrmex fragilis (F. Smith). 

 (Fig. 9.) 



Formica frafiilis F. Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool. 3, 1858, p. 

 136, S . 



Leptomyrmex fragilis Emery, Ann. Mus. Stor. Nat. Genova, 38, 

 1897, p. 571, PL l,Figs. 17 and 18, y o^ ; Viehmeyer, Abhand. ber. 

 k. zool. anthr. ethnogr. Mus. Dresden 14, 1912, p. 22, y ; Emery, 

 Genera Insect. Fasc. 137, 1912, p. 15; Stitz, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. 

 Freunde, Berlin, 1912, p. 507, y d'. 



"Worker. Length 6.5-7 mm. 



